30 December 2012 was a numerical date close to the end of some humans year cycle. On that particular day, the area of the Island where Allotment Plot 326 was situated was experiencing less favourable weather conditions than seen earlier in the predictive reading of Ella Montt’s crystal ball. Ella Montt was however able to [...]
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December 30, 2012 by kate · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Allotments, Flood, Rain
Social Tagging: Allotments • Slow Worm • Winter
Filed under: Allotments, Flood, Rain
Social Tagging: Allotments • Slow Worm • Winter
November 30, 2012 by kate · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Allotments, Exteme Weather, Flood, Rain, Storm
Social Tagging: Allotments • Flood • Poverty • Rain
Filed under: Allotments, Exteme Weather, Flood, Rain, Storm
Social Tagging: Allotments • Flood • Poverty • Rain
3rd November 2012, Plot 326 was experiencing the calm after the backend of the storm. On the island there had been substantial rain and wind in affect, but nothing compared to the Frankenstorm 3000 human miles or so across the ocean. The storm ruined many human habitats and stopped the Halloween parade. For some electrical power [...]
October 31, 2012 by kate · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Allotments, Flood, Frost, Storm
Social Tagging: Allotment Plot 326 • Emergency • Flood • Frost • Green Tomato Chutney • Halloween • Storm
Filed under: Allotments, Flood, Frost, Storm
Social Tagging: Allotment Plot 326 • Emergency • Flood • Frost • Green Tomato Chutney • Halloween • Storm
2nd October 2012 – Allotment Plot 326, it had rained in the dark hours of the night. The Plot now was singular; the attention had shifted from two to one. The allotment plot remained part of history reaching back several hundred years to the evolving industrial revolution and the dawning of the age of the [...]
July 31, 2012 by kate · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Allotments, Drought, Plant Life, Rain
Social Tagging: Acorns • Allotments • Common Lizard • Garlic • Oak Tree • Rain
Filed under: Allotments, Drought, Plant Life, Rain
Social Tagging: Acorns • Allotments • Common Lizard • Garlic • Oak Tree • Rain
18th July 2012 – Allotment Plot 326 – Heavy rain showers were falling. Ella Montt stood in the doorway of the cramped shed waiting for the rain to ease. The ground was wet and would be muddy if any digging was about to occur. When the rain eased off slightly, EM moved from the shelter [...]
July 15, 2012 by kate · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Allotments, Black Fly, Exteme Weather, Rain
Social Tagging: Allotments • Garlic • Rain
Filed under: Allotments, Black Fly, Exteme Weather, Rain
Social Tagging: Allotments • Garlic • Rain
7th July 2012 – Ella Montt had visited other plants in other lands, where they were other small garden cultivation plot systems. At Allotment Plot at MERL, Rain had fallen. The Broad Beans had succumbed to the pestilence of Black Fly. The thwarted plants were rotting and needed to be uprooted to destroy the scourge. [...]
June 30, 2012 by kate · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Allotments, Black Fly, Exteme Weather
Social Tagging: Allotments • Black Fly • Companion Planting
Filed under: Allotments, Black Fly, Exteme Weather
Social Tagging: Allotments • Black Fly • Companion Planting
13th June 2012 – at Allotment Plot At MERL, there had been heavy rain on the 11th. The temperature was often chilly for June, but at that moment the sun was out, (although later in the day grey clouds would accumulate blocking the warmth of rays from the golden light object mass). Ella Montt was [...]
April 30, 2012 by kate · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Allotments, Drought, Exteme Weather, Rain
Social Tagging: Drought • Fruit Blossom • Rain • Seeds • Sweet Potato
Filed under: Allotments, Drought, Exteme Weather, Rain
Social Tagging: Drought • Fruit Blossom • Rain • Seeds • Sweet Potato
2nd April 2012, at Allotment Plot 326 the parched Earth was resigned to the tight grip that Drought had on the soil. The grip was in the process of tightening. The soil was cracking. Blossoms enclosed in tight buds were forming on the fruit trees and bushes, but the young Plum Tree, planted a year [...]
March 25, 2012 by kate · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Allotments, Drought, Global Warming, Object, Plant
Social Tagging: Allotments • Drought • Mulch • Precipitation
Filed under: Allotments, Drought, Global Warming, Object, Plant
Social Tagging: Allotments • Drought • Mulch • Precipitation
In the human settlement of Reading, the month of March 2012 was without Precipitation apart from on the 4th March. Even before the month was over it was possible for Ella Montt to gaze in to the crystal ball and see that the forecast contained no evidence that Precipitation would occur in that time period. [...]
February 29, 2012 by kate · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Allotments, Drought
Social Tagging: Drought • Plant • Seeds
Filed under: Allotments, Drought
Social Tagging: Drought • Plant • Seeds
The Allotment Plots are sitting in an area experiencing a two-year winter drought. On the 9th February at Allotment Plot at MERL, it was a cold, dull, grey day. The ground was dry and frigid. Evaporation was methodically drying the soil. The recent weather conditions had been a mixture of bright sunshine, frost, snow and [...]
September 18, 2011 by kate · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Allotments, Blight, Compost, Harvest, Object
Social Tagging: Allotments • Commodities • Compost • Objects • Squash • Tomato • Zombie
Filed under: Allotments, Blight, Compost, Harvest, Object
Social Tagging: Allotments • Commodities • Compost • Objects • Squash • Tomato • Zombie
2nd September 2011 – Allotment Plot at MERL – For the human it was a very warm day, in an exterior context, such as the garden, but not if placed in an interior, where it seemed much cooler and autumnal. Ella Montt crouched next to the Plot. Her body moved slowly around the edge, redefining [...]
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